Bellator 35 kicks off the organization’s 12-week fourth season. The event, which airs live on MTV2 as part of a new multi-year broadcast agreement with Bellator, takes place at Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in Lemoore, Calif.

The popular Tachi Palace Fights promotion is expected to fill the night’s untelevised preliminary card.

A non-title fight between 115-pound champion Zoila Frausto (10-1 MMA, 4-0 BFC) and Karina Hallinan (3-4 MMA, 0-0 BFC), which MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported this past week, is still a go for the show. However, it’ll serve as the night’s featured preliminary-card bout.

The welterweight tournament’s eventual winner gets $100,000 in total pay and a guaranteed title shot with current champion Ben Askren. Combined, this year’s tournament field owns a 114-20-1 career record.

“This welterweight tournament is stacked,” Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney stated. “Every fight should be hyper-competitive. Any one of these eight fighters could win it, make $100,000 and earn the right to fight Askren for our world title.

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